“For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level… — Jean-Philippe Toussaint Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of hard work. I like it! It's the other bit - the not working - I find more problematic.… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
Torture is abominable, things like ripping out someone's nails, or burning someone with a blowtorch. And those who practice it feel a… — Saadi Yacef Copy Share Image
I can't say there was a last straw because there have been so many straws, but certainly the horrors at the border,… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
“This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Spittle flew from Jango’s lips as he shouted at the man in a woman’s voice that sounded like it was made of… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
I like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
“Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
“As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“Tamlin's eyes were so green- green like the meadows of his estate. A shade that washed away the memories flooding through me,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Many of the soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and have not been supported by the government when they've requested psychological help.… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is:… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
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